Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bouquets to you for your article on Gene and Herman Talmadge. It not only showed an insight into the politically adolescent mind of the Southern voter, but gave a taste of what can come about under a Democratic administration, whether it be state or federal...
Seven years ago, NBC had no opera company and wanted none. Sponsors considered TV opera poison to listener ratings. Then in 1949 a Czech-born conductor named Peter Herman Adler got together with NBC's General Music Director Samual Chotzinoff. The reason the ordinary listener did not appreciate opera, they argued, was that he could not understand the words and the stilted acting made the whole thing seem ridiculous. "If we don't understand the singer's words," says Adler, "we cannot know whether he acts or even sings in accordance with them. And the moment...
...Indeed, Herman will be an important figure not only to the South but as a regional spokesman in that all-embracing organization, the National Democratic Party. This was a point best brought out by Candidate Adlai Stevenson as he swung through the South last spring, drumming up support for his nomination. Said Stevenson of Talmadge, while a house guest at the executive mansion during Herman's regime in Atlanta: "We can agree on a great many more things than we disagree on, and we need one another...
...Gene and Herman Talmadge were the second father-and-son governors of Georgia. The first: Joseph E. Brown, elected 1858, and son Joseph M., elected...
Tonight or Never. In Chicago, police jugged Herman Nolte on his wedding night after he celebrated by firing his shotgun from his front porch, stealing the squad car when cops turned up to investigate...